Job 5:6

For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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In The King James Version

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

In Context

5whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 6:9Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”

Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Lamentations 3:38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Amos 3:6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn’t done it?

Matthew Henry on Job 5:2-6

The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. A very… Read the whole commentary →

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